Life Audio. Today we are getting into confessions from a Christian alcoholic. I have a friend

joining me today and we're going to dive into all the things, all the nuances, and really the

reality of how when we do life with Jesus, any of us, no matter what it is that you are walking

through today, whatever addiction, you can truly have hope, break free, be healed, and be transformed.

Let's talk about it.

Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents, and welcome to this week's episode of the Bot and Beloved podcast. As always, it's your girl, Kirby Kelly, back at it again. And it's been a minute since we've had a guest here on the podcast. I feel like I've been doing a lot of just stand-alone, me chatting with y'all episodes. But one of my good friends, Faith Womack, I don't know if y'all

know who she is, but she's literally one of my favorite people. And she's going to be on the

podcast in like two or three weeks. So get ready for that episode because we want to talk

about women in theology. I'm going to put her up there. She introduced me to the person that I'm

having guest on today's episode, John Seidel,

and he wrote a book called Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic, a Candid Conversation on Drinking

Addiction and How to Break Free.

And if you know anything about me and like my ministry, the book that I released, even like my testimony

of being a child of two alcoholics, when he reached out and when she reached out was like,

girl, you need to meet this guy, I need to become friends with him. And then when I got to read

his book and be on his podcast, which is also out today. I'll link that down below. It was like, oh my gosh,

this is literally the Lord that we're meeting and we even live near each other. It's just like

such a God thing. But John, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited for people to hear your story.

But before we do that, can you just give a quick intro as to who you are, what you do,

what you're passionate about for the people who don't know you? Yeah, thanks, Kirby. I'm really

excited to be here. Like you said, it's funny how much we have in common, like literally from where

we even just live. We could like throw a rock at each other. Literally. And so yeah, I, you know, my background

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